From food and healthy recipes to fitness exercises and research studies, the AHWC blog offers expert health and wellness advice.
Is your heart healthy? February is American Heart Month. Simple tests including blood pressure, cholesterol, fasting blood glucose and triglycerides can help you understand your heart health. Use the following nutrition tips to keep your heart happy. Achieve a healthy weight — Excess weight increases your risk for cardiovascular disease. Healthcare professionals define healthy weight…
Kenny Frazee is an eternal optimist. Frazee, who is 55 and works as an insurance fraud investigator in New Jersey, says he’s done the dieting thing so long, he was one of the first people to go on the Richard Simmons “Cruise to Lose” in the 1990s. “I did Weight Watchers on and off several…
If anyone was lacking motivation at Nick Natt‘s group-fitness class at the Downtown Denver YMCA last week, it wasn’t apparent. The room was packed. People were smiling. The music was thumping. Read More
Each week, one of our trainers will give you a new workout. This helps ensure you vary your routine, try new things and steer clear of those plateaus! Safety first! These exercises are intended for healthy adults capable of safely performing the exercises demonstrated herein. Not all exercises may be appropriate for your current level…
Each week, one of our trainers will give you a new workout. This helps ensure you vary your routine, try new things and steer clear of those plateaus! Safety first! These exercises are intended for healthy adults capable of safely performing the exercises demonstrated herein. Not all exercises may be appropriate for your current level…
Each week, one of our trainers will give you a new workout. This helps ensure you vary your routine, try new things and steer clear of those plateaus! Safety first! These exercises are intended for healthy adults capable of safely performing the exercises demonstrated herein. Not all exercises may be appropriate for your current level…
DENVER (CBS4) – It’s no surprise that the No. 1 New Year’s resolution is to lose weight. But there’s one doctor who’s determined to turn that resolution into a revolution. Dr. Holly Wyatt, of CU’s Anschutz Health and Wellness Center in Aurora, has dedicated her life to better understanding weight loss — and our mindset around…
This January, either you or someone you know is probably trying to lose some weight. Either you or that person probably will fail. In fact, only 77 percent of people maintain their resolutions for a single week, and only 19 percent last two years (some claim the success rate might be as low as 8 percent).…
Each week, one of our trainers will give you a new workout. This helps ensure you vary your routine, try new things and steer clear of those plateaus! Safety first! These exercises are intended for healthy adults capable of safely performing the exercises demonstrated herein. Not all exercises may be appropriate for your current level…
Wait, is it January already? Every New Year I see gyms fill to the brim and diet programs flooded with new participants. However, it never fails that by February or March, numbers dwindle back to pre-holiday participation and healthy diets have been ditched. This year, resolve to keep your commitments to health with these strategies.…
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